"I have seen this kind of hate before. I have seen this discussion before," he said. "I have seen snarling dogs going after people who were trying to peacefully assemble. I have seen the eyes of people who were being spat upon.
"This is all about activity trying to deny the establishment of a civil right. And I do believe that health care for all is — a civil right," the House Majority Whip argued. "And I think that is why you see this kind of activity. This is an attempt on the part of some to deny the establishment of a civil right."
NRCC spokesman Ken Spain has jumped on Clyburn's comments, saying they "smack of bigotry and elitism."
"When anti-war activists were assembling and comparing the president of the United States to Hitler, it was ‘patriotic,’ but now that middle class Americans are standing up to a government takeover of health care, it is somehow steeped in racism and reminiscent of those who denied civil rights to African-Americans," Spain added.
Disgusting.
Source: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/Clyburn_likens_town_hall_behavior_to_civil_rights_era.html
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Henry Waxman Threatens To Forego His Committee
When you can't get what you want, ignore everyone else:
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has threatened to bypass his own committee and move a sweeping health care bill to the House floor if conservative Democrats in the Blue Dog Coalition don't agree to back the package.
Waxman had agreed to include language in the bill that would grant an outside commission authority to recommend cuts to government-funded health care programs. According to Ross, he had also agreed to include Senate language that would let doctors and other health care providers negotiate rates with the government-sponsored public health care plans.
But in the Friday session, Waxman told the group that he was taking both concessions off the table, Ross said afterward.
Even Democrat leadership, such as Whip Jim Clyburn and DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen are uncomfortable with this blatently unfair move. But this is the hard-nosed (no pun intended) old-liner Waxman we're talking about, so we'll see.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25380.html#ixzz0MCkZMMPI
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has threatened to bypass his own committee and move a sweeping health care bill to the House floor if conservative Democrats in the Blue Dog Coalition don't agree to back the package.
Waxman had agreed to include language in the bill that would grant an outside commission authority to recommend cuts to government-funded health care programs. According to Ross, he had also agreed to include Senate language that would let doctors and other health care providers negotiate rates with the government-sponsored public health care plans.
But in the Friday session, Waxman told the group that he was taking both concessions off the table, Ross said afterward.
Even Democrat leadership, such as Whip Jim Clyburn and DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen are uncomfortable with this blatently unfair move. But this is the hard-nosed (no pun intended) old-liner Waxman we're talking about, so we'll see.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25380.html#ixzz0MCkZMMPI
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